design

The deck commands panoramic views of the city and the ocean in the distance. The lounge chairs are from IKEA.

“There’s confusion that the more expensive the design is, the more of a luxury it is. But expensive materials do not make the design,” Edna says.

At night, LED lights accentuate the porthole windows and openings throughout the dome.

The meadow is close enough to the glass-walled dining room and kitchen (and screen porch) that the homeowners can feel immersed in nature even while inside.

A new detached garage is topped with a guest room, overlooking the meadow and pool.

In what's now known as the music room on the ground floor (previously called the front parlor), a stucco-clad fireplace was paired with a stone base and rounded edges capped in Accoyo wood.

In the master bedroom, above the Legnoletto by Alias bed, is a photograph by John Huggins. The lamp is from Ikea. “Nothing is painted—all that stripping is about getting to the natural surfaces of the wood, and the concrete block,” Norelius says.

A large rectangular cut in the back wall of the house creates views from the entrance through a courtyard to the trees and lake beyond.

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“The curtain allows the space to be opened up or closed off in all kinds of different ways, and gives it more warmth and better sound-proofing,” says Vibeke.

Custom white oak vanities continue the thread in the en-suite bathroom.

Now the ceiling framework gives the room more height, and two taller window units flank either side of the bed, adding to the illusion of more height. Pendants by Poul Henningsen for Louis Poulsen hang above the custom white oak bed designed by Lake Flato Architects.

The team removed the brick at the fireplace and added a terrazzo hearth with custom brass. The angles of the walls made a traditional furniture layout awkward, so the designers opted to float the custom sofa in the center so circulation flows easily around it. Art by Carrie Crawford and pendants by Sistemalux.

Lake Flato Architects extended the brick around the fireplace across the entire wall, then added a steel beam to be able to remove the columns and lift the ceiling height. Office of Tangible Space added a Sofa by De Sede, Rug by Beni Rugs, and chair by Shiro Kuramata for Cassina.

Work It “We wanted to open up the back of the house, but there’s nothing to look at,” says Dana. “So we decided to put something in our yard as a focal point, to create our own view.” The architects came up with a glass-walled studio, which Dana uses as her home office. The architects mounted a steel I-beam that spans the yard, with holes drilled at eight-inch intervals for maximum flexibility of use. Right now it’s used for Ikea play equipment, but later they plan to hang a hammock and a movie screen. ikea.com

Playful wallpaper from Graham & Brown livens up the house’s otherwise staid powder room, which also contains a pint-size Ikea sink.

The deck, which wraps around the backyard's two conifers, is heated with a gas-burning fireplace.